Khalishpur is an Upazila of Khulna District

Khulna District

The district of Khulna consists 10859 mosques, 680 temples, 81 churches, 15 Buddhist temples and 9 tombs.-Places of interest:*The Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest in the world. The royal Bengal tiger inhabits the area; it is said that seeing the tiger enables a person to understand what a...

 in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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Geography

Khalishpur is located at 22.8500°N 89.5361°E . It has 35343 units of house hold and total area 11.47 km².

Demographics

Bangladesh census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Khalishpur has a population of 173255. Males constitute are 55.95% of the population, and females 44.05%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 96193. Khalishpur has an average literacy rate of 59.8% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate.